Angle-bar for railway-rail joints.



PATENTED MAY 2, 1905.

G. H. WILLIAMS.

ANGLE BAR FOR RAILWAY RAIL JOINTS.

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Wm. A w %1 I IINTTED STATES Patented May 2, 1905.

GEORGE H. WVILLIAMS, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

ANGLE-BAR FOH RAILWAY-HAIL JOINTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 788,743, dated May 2, 1905. Application filed February 15, 1905. Serial No. 245,771.

To (LZZ whom, it may conccrw:

Be it known that I, Gnonen H. WILLiAMs, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri. have invented new and useful Improvements in Angle-Bars for Railwayltail Joints, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to angle-bars for securing the ends of railway-rails together in such a manner that when the car-wheels are passing over the joint the blow or the force of the wheels on the ends of the rails will be more directly over the angle-bars than it is in the usual way of constructing angle-bars for railway-joints at the present time. I attain this advantage by reinforcing my bar on the inside or between the inside of the bar and the web of the rail.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of one of my angle-bars, disclosing a graduated reinforcement on the inside of the bar, the heaviest portion of the reinforcement being central of the bar, with the graduated portion toward each end of the bar. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of my angle-bar, taken on line A A of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a cross-section of the rail and the an gle-bar, taken on line B B of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a cross-section of my angle-bar and the rail, taken on line C C of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a modification of Fig. 4, disclosing the angle-bar, provided with a shoe or support extending to the under side of the foot of the rail.

With the above brief description of my invention I will now proceed to more fully describe it by referring to the corresponding numerals on the drawings and the specification.

1 and 2 illustrate my angle-bar as disclosed in Fig. 2, and 3 illustrates the end of the rail; 4, the rail-bolts. It will be understood that the heaviest portion of the reinforcement is at the point shown in Fig. 2, the bars 1 and 2 being in their normal position, leaving a space 5 of about one-eighth of an inch between the inside of the bar and the web of the rail. It will be noticed that the inner portion of the reinforcements incline inwardly. My object in constructing mybar in this manner is that it will more forcibly resist the blow of the passing car-wheels, and if there should be any yielding or cushioning effected by the passing wheels it will be of an inward tendency instead of an outward tendency, thereby retaining all of the carrying strength of the bar directly under the blow of the passing wheels over the joint. 6 designates the second graduated portions, these graduations extending longitudinally to within a short distance of the end of the bar, as shown in Fig. 1.

7 illustrates the ends of the bars, looking toward the section-line C C of Fig. 1.

In my modification as illustrated at Fig. 5 I have provided a shoe integral with the bar, that extends around the toe of the rail and firmly engages the bottom of therail, as shown in said figure, 1 have provided the usual boltholes 9 through the bars.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

An angle-bar for railway-rails, a reinforcement on the inside thereof and central of the bar, a graduated reinforcement extending each way from the first-mentioned reinforcement toward the ends of the bar; substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

M. L. RYNEX, FRANoIs BARNARD. 

